…as expressed by J. Bone, at his blog Bone’s Men.
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Hey folks, sorry for the recent dearth of material. I feel like I turned a corner, 12 minutes ago, when I updated this month’s PREVIEWS order. I’m not attending MoCCA this year, and aside from a brief sojourn to the Toronto Comicon in a few weeks, my plate is remarkably clear until San Diego. Of course, by ‘clear’ I mean ‘I can’t believe how much TCAF stuff there is to do’, but I should be able to get my life and blogging back in order, anyway.
Speaking of blogging, thanks to the folks at “Fandom Wank” the “AFRAID OF COCK” post got another go-round on the internet, sparking more comments and snickering. I honestly had no idea that post would push as many buttons as it has… A friend didn’t believe me when I told him I had no idea anyone would read it or care (“Come on man” he said. “You’re Chris Butcher, that means something.” I was sitting on my couch in my underwear, eating cereal and an hour late for work at the time.), but I guess this stuff has legs. Ah well. I wish you were all reading CASANOVA, it’s got actual penises in it (and a great story, and lovely art…). That hard cover last week sure was pretty, wasn’t it? Damn.
Barring catastrophe, I should be updating daily for the next little while (and this post doesn’t count, real content later today, hopefully). Thanks for continuing to tune in here.
– Christopher
Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
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Anime North – Wish You Were Here 3
Canadians love that Tim Horton fellow.
I had to post a better picture than the last one of Jamie, just so he’d speak to me again.
Svetlana Chmakova, signing at The Beguiling table on Saturday. She had a huge line.
Since Kai was good enough to make a post on my blog, and since I didn’t fuck his mother in return, I’ve instead decided to post this picture. Also, the following pictures were taken by Kai:
Awwww! That’s ADORABLE.
– Chris
Kai and Jason rule!
Kai and Jason are so cool. i really should have “blogged” about them sooner. I also should not have left my laptop unattended. One of my favorite movies is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but i wish that Kai and Jason had played the main roles. it would have been better that way. I also think Backdraft would have been better if Kai and Jason played all the roles in it
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Anime North: Wish You Were Here 2
Anime North: Wish You Were Here
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Incidentally…
It’s nice to know that the internet can go batshit insane about normal, everyday issues without me, warms my heart. Thanks to Johanna for picking up the slack.
– Christopher
Twomorrows Sales Slump: Maybe you’re diluting your own product?
I’m actually 16 days behind on my google feed-reader, so my knowledge of comics news is limited to what people are asking me at the store (for the record, that statue is atrocious, but unsurprising)… Except for the Tim Leong/Comics Foundry thing, because Tim E-mailed me. More on that later. The event that it’s tied to in the public consciousness, Twomorrows Publishing and all the shit that they’ve got going on… Again, it’s a little too deep to wade into in depth (They’re seriously selling their own promotional samplers?). But the big thing? About their sales being steady but unspectacular given their outreach efforts?
They’re publishing 6 regular magazines, three or four lines of books, and a huge assortment of standalone books. At what point are they canibalizing their own sales, their own marketting? The mass-market might have four magazines about high-end pen ownership (seriously), but they’re not generally published by the same people.
I’m a retailer, and I’m telling you I don’t really need Alter Ego, Back Issue, Draw!, Jack Kirby Collector, Rough Stuff, Write Now, Modern Masters (effectively a “mook”), and one book about apes or the Batcave or whatever every other month.
Add to that, that several of the magazines sprung out of features/columns in other magazines and, yeah, I’m willing to come out and say that Twomorrows is caught in a cycle of diluting their own readership with umpteenth variations of the same article. If Twomorrows really wants the sales that come with appealing to a mass-audience, they need to produce a product that appeals to a mass audience, instead of a litany of ever-narrowing niche magazines. Sure, sometimes you end up with a Comicology or some other noble failure, and some magazines are all about their format (the massive Kirby Collectors), but…? Draw, Write, Rough Stuff? All of that together is barely one monthly magazine. And economy of scale? I’d rather have one magazine that sold 3000 copies than 3 that sold 12-1500.
My 2 cents.
– Chris